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| author | Furmaniak, Ralph |
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| contents | Bohr's last problem (1952) asks whether every ordinary Dirichlet series with nonzero Lindelöf order function $μ$ has $μ'(ω_μ{-}0)\le-1$; a negative answer would imply Lindelöf for $ζ$. Kahane (1989) refuted this with half-plane counterexamples. We study the refinement for series with entire continuation of order $\le 1$: the Analytic Lindelöf Hypothesis that $μ$ is piecewise linear with integer slopes.
Deforming the Mellin integral to the strip boundary reduces $μ_L$ to a residue sum over singularities of the generating function on $|x|=1$, giving $μ_L(σ)=\max(0,\tfrac12-σ+ρ)$. For classical $L$-functions this sum is the functional-equation dual, and bounding it is Lindelöf; for self-similar or random singularities it is a Rajchman Fourier transform. We show Kahane's half-plane examples fail entirety, his entire random examples have integer slopes a.s., and Lerch-Lindelöf implies ALH.
Our central construction is the Cantor Dirichlet series $L(s)=\sum\hatν(n)n^{-s}$, with $ν$ the ternary Cantor measure. Its Kaczorowski--Perelli twist spectrum is empty; we prove $μ_L(\tfrac12)\le\tfrac18$ unconditionally via a Montgomery--Vaughan argument on the product variable $(m_1+α)(m_2+α)$, where a Vieta identity guarantees distinct frequencies. A Cantor-weighted Hurwitz second-moment conjecture would give $μ_L(\tfrac12)=0$. |
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| spellingShingle | Bohr's Last Problem Under the Entirety Hypothesis: A Survey with Initial Reductions Furmaniak, Ralph Number Theory Bohr's last problem (1952) asks whether every ordinary Dirichlet series with nonzero Lindelöf order function $μ$ has $μ'(ω_μ{-}0)\le-1$; a negative answer would imply Lindelöf for $ζ$. Kahane (1989) refuted this with half-plane counterexamples. We study the refinement for series with entire continuation of order $\le 1$: the Analytic Lindelöf Hypothesis that $μ$ is piecewise linear with integer slopes. Deforming the Mellin integral to the strip boundary reduces $μ_L$ to a residue sum over singularities of the generating function on $|x|=1$, giving $μ_L(σ)=\max(0,\tfrac12-σ+ρ)$. For classical $L$-functions this sum is the functional-equation dual, and bounding it is Lindelöf; for self-similar or random singularities it is a Rajchman Fourier transform. We show Kahane's half-plane examples fail entirety, his entire random examples have integer slopes a.s., and Lerch-Lindelöf implies ALH. Our central construction is the Cantor Dirichlet series $L(s)=\sum\hatν(n)n^{-s}$, with $ν$ the ternary Cantor measure. Its Kaczorowski--Perelli twist spectrum is empty; we prove $μ_L(\tfrac12)\le\tfrac18$ unconditionally via a Montgomery--Vaughan argument on the product variable $(m_1+α)(m_2+α)$, where a Vieta identity guarantees distinct frequencies. A Cantor-weighted Hurwitz second-moment conjecture would give $μ_L(\tfrac12)=0$. |
| title | Bohr's Last Problem Under the Entirety Hypothesis: A Survey with Initial Reductions |
| topic | Number Theory |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.23336 |